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LN+ asked over 3 years ago

What is a Lightning Address?

What is a Bitcoin Lightning Network Address or Lightning Address for short?

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LN+ Admin wrote over 3 years ago

The LN Address is a long string of letters and numbers in the following format. As an example here is the Lightning Address of LN+:
0302536817c335e45bcd0b10b78fd06bc246609405d98eb64672410dce04f49e5f@mueqiomlbw6yq7smawrdogfzttmzkw4ouuovcyut7mmozowccb3bodqd.onion:9735

Node ID

The first part up till the @ sign is called the node id:
0302536817c335e45bcd0b10b78fd06bc246609405d98eb64672410dce04f49e5f

This is a unique identifier of your lightning node and can be used to find your node on various websites, like Amboss.Space, 1ML and others.

Host and Port

The second part after the @ sign is the host and port id:
mueqiomlbw6yq7smawrdogfzttmzkw4ouuovcyut7mmozowccb3bodqd.onion:9735

Together these two parts make up the Lightning Address, which is used to connect to a node as a peer or open a channel to a node.

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